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| A couple of photos, just found the one pansy plant in the mess and xplanted it. Just thought my gypsophilia paniculata was especially pretty now with my Pat Austin Rose. It was very slow to get established, finally somebody suggested I break up some chalky stuff, so I broke up some drywall chips a couple years ago and that did the trick. I think I should have pinched it back earlier because it's flopping.
I did an artsy version of the pansy and tried to enhance it in Photoshop. I didn't take a photo, but I had a couple of the strangest tall plants with thick round stalks, starting to show some light pink floweers. Think it is my pink milkweed I got from Prairie Moom that escaped from a container. Come and go here, have so many things to do. Thought I'd grab some photos because the beetles should be showing up any day. Got some nylon net to cover my baby raspberry plants or I should say my daughter picked it up for me.
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Sun, Jun 19, 11 at 14:18
| Very Pretty Alisa! Do your flowers hold on the 'Pat Austin'? I am dissappointed on "Alexander of Kent and The Alinwick' Rose. Little fragrance and the petals fell of rather quickly. |
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- Posted by aliska12000 Z5 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 19, 11 at 15:50
| They last a few days, but no, the plant is weak and needed a better start and more fussing. I'm not sure but think this one is not supposed to "nod" but it does. In my zone, it dies almost to the ground every winter unless you pile a bunch of stuff on them in the fall which by then I'm not in the mood to mess with them any more. I do try to prune it back every spring, cut off the dead stuff, and that seems to encourage new growth which springs forth rather quickly and into bloom. Many of mine are disappointments, a lot because I didn't give them the room they need because I couldn't. They perform better in a little warmer climates and grower knowhow. But after the first years, I don't bother to drag the hose around, and two or three weeks without rain doesn't seem to bother them. BTW, I didn't try to "paint" that pansy, just upped the saturation a little and used the healing brush to get rid of specks and cropped differently than I normally do. |
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